It is undeniable that Artificial Intelligence can change many areas of a person’s life: professionally, academically and personally. The question is, how expert can it be in each of these fields?
After the popularization of AI, I personally started using these tools for the most different areas of my life to be more efficient, creative, assertive and precise (Brynjolfsson et al., 2017). From ChatGPT to develop texts to Suno to create music and DALL-E to create image. Academically, AI helps me to verify, develop and hone my ideas. Professionally, it helps me to get new jobs, prepare for interviews, solve real life problems, write code – sometimes in programming languages I don’t even know how to code. Personally, the functions go from me making personalized drawings to put on the cover of my Spotify playlists to asking to develop texts to LinkedIn posts and to solve many other personal needs.
One of these needs was in the second half of 2023, when me and another Brazilian friend needed a plan for an “eurotrip” during New Year’s Eve. Since none of us were comfortable in planning a trip to a continent that was not ours, I had the idea of asking ChatGPT to be a travel agent (Chung et al., 2015) and give recommendations of places to go and to help plan the trip. It not only made the whole itinerary, but also personalized it to exactly what me and my friend were looking for.
The power ChatGPT has goes beyond giving standard answers to the users’ questions. It reaches a level of personalization based on iteration never seen before. Each time it gave me a travel idea, I could say “I prefer warmer countries” or “I’d like to try mediterranean food”, or even “now I want to add two more countries that will be low budget”. Then, after choosing the countries – England, Spain and Portugal –, it helped me to choose the hotels, the dates, the flight companies and the must-see places in each of these countries. Apart from that, it even made a day-to-day itinerary with the main points. The trip would not have been the same without its help.
It is truly mind-blowing to think that a tool so powerful such as ChatGPT could help me with something so specific and be expert at the same time (Dwivedi et al., 2021). The fact that it can be an expert in so many other areas at the same time means that people must incorporate it to their lives to outsource the operational tasks and be able to focus on living life at its fullest, being more productive, efficient and using the “acquired” free time to whatever suits them better.
References:
Brynjolfsson, E., & McAfee, A. (2017). The business of artificial intelligence. Harvard Business Review. Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2017/07/the-business-of-artificial-intelligence
Chung, N., & Koo, C. (2015). The use of social media in travel information search. Telematics and Informatics, 32(2), 215-229. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585314000513?
Dwivedi, Y. K., Hughes, D. L., Ismagilova, E., Aarts, G., Coombs, C., Crick, T., … & Williams, M. D. (2021). Artificial Intelligence (AI): Multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging challenges, opportunities, and agenda for research, practice, and policy. International Journal of Information Management, 57, 101994. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026840121930917X?
